National Consultant to support in scaling up the social media platforms of the Children’s Club network, Colombo (remote)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each baby, outcomes

UNICEF works to guard the rights of each baby in Sri Lanka. Our aim is to make sure that all of our kids survive, thrive and fulfill their huge potential.

In a world that’s quickly altering, kids are confronted with complicated challenges and unprecedented alternatives. UNICEF’s packages are designed to achieve and profit all kids in order that they’ll stand up to these challenges, leverage these alternatives and be the drivers of their very own future.

UNICEF is dedicated to creating a rustic during which each baby is free to be taught, play and develop. Our packages work in direction of offering all kids in Sri Lanka with shelter, diet, safety and training, wherever they might be. We attempt to create communities during which kids can dwell with dignity and hope, free from discrimination, violence and worry.

We make each effort to create and keep environments that may allow and empower kids to be the easiest that they are often.

On this method, all kids won’t solely profit from financial and social development however will grow to be the driving power behind sustainable nationwide growth.

For over 50 years, with the assistance of our huge community of companions, UNICEF has made vital strides in elevating well being, training and safety requirements for youngsters in Sri Lanka. From reaching Common Youngster Immunization (1989) to establishing The Nationwide Youngster Safety Authority (1998) to offering a long time of essential aid within the wake of devastating battle and pure catastrophe, UNICEF has performed a pivotal position in creating an surroundings during which kids have the very best probability to outlive and thrive.

But, many challenges nonetheless exist, particularly for probably the most weak. Some nationwide and regional our bodies require sources and reinvigoration. People and establishments should be strengthened, coordinated and aligned with world requirements in order that kids get pleasure from help of their colleges, communities and houses to assist them overcome challenges and unleash their full potential into the world.

Attributable to our long-standing fame as an skilled, impartial and collaborative companion, UNICEF is ideally suited to drive these efforts. Our historical past of success in Sri Lanka is constructed on our means to faucet into a large community of nationwide and worldwide companions which, in flip, is bolstered by our personal far-reaching presence within the subject. In working intently with these authorities, non-government and personal entities, UNICEF takes a management position, drawing on our technical experience to precisely assess present challenges and develop, execute and coordinate options which are related and scalable on the bottom.  For extra details about UNICEF Sri Lanka and its work go to: http://www.unicef.org/srilanka

How are you going to make a distinction? 

Scope of Work:

Background

Youngsters have a proper to affect choices and take part in issues that have an effect on their lives by being knowledgeable, engaged, and heard. The Authorities of Sri Lanka acknowledges the suitable, significance, and wish of kid participation in areas that matter to them. Moreover, the Youngster Participation Guideline of the Ministry of Ladies and Youngster Affairs emphasizes that baby participation must be integrated into all choices, processes, and actions associated to kids, together with formulation of insurance policies and plans for the advantage of kids.

Youngsters’s Membership program is without doubt one of the key programmes applied by the Division of Probation and Youngster Care Providers (DPCCS) of the Ministry of Ladies and Youngster Affairs to make sure the suitable to participation of youngsters. There are round 9,000 energetic kids’s golf equipment within the nation on the village stage with the participation of round 570, 000 kids. Divisional, district and nationwide kids’s councils are fashioned and functioned with the representatives chosen from village-level kids’s golf equipment, divisional stage councils and district stage councils respectively.

The DPCCS has not too long ago developed a strategic motion plan for the Youngsters’s Membership community. ‘Empowering kids and youth in Sri Lanka to amplify their voices and making a optimistic notion on kids’s golf equipment’ is without doubt one of the key targets on this strategic motion plan. In alignment with this goal and as a method to attain this, it’s meant to advertise and scale up the social media platforms of the Youngsters’s Membership community. The recruited advisor is predicted to supply a brief – time period help to the operational workforce of those social media platforms, consisting of the chosen representatives of the Nationwide Youngsters’s Council, Youngsters’s Golf equipment and the DPCCS.

Description of task:

1. Proposing an applicable and sustainable operational workforce construction to handle the social media platforms of the Youngsters´s Membership Community.

Recruited advisor is predicted to suggest an applicable operational workforce construction to handle the social media platforms after understanding the operations of the youngsters’s membership community; referring the useful resource supplies; and consulting the Nationwide Youngsters’s Council, DPCCS and UNICEF. Proposed workforce construction (10- 12 members together with kids with disabilities) ought to consist of youngsters from the Nationwide Youngsters’s Council and Youngsters’s Membership community; and officers from the DPCCS.

Guide is predicted to develop a proposal of a workforce construction (organogram), job descriptions for every position, and screening/choice standards to recruit appropriate candidates for the advised workforce roles. Primarily based on the job descriptions and display screen tips offered by the advisor, the DPCCS will full the choice course of to recruit candidates for the operational workforce.

2.  Enhancing the capability of the operation workforce to handle the social media platforms.

Recruited advisor is predicted to boost the capability of the operational workforce by facilitating two three-day residential workshops; and three digital observe up conferences.

Orientation Workshop – It’s proposed to contemplate under areas for the orientation workshop. Actual focus areas will likely be decided after the recruitment of the advisor in coordination with DPCCS and UNICEF.

Group constructing Objective and targets of the workforce Youngster Participation with no consideration Introduction to Digital Advertising Digital Advertising panorama (particularly in Sri Lanka) Digital ecosystem and contact factors (in relation to the Youngsters’s Membership community additionally by referring the present Digital Mapping developed by UNICEF Regional Workplace for South Asia as a steering) Fundamentals in regards to the chosen social media platforms Digital Analysis Instruments Social Media ethics and Social Accountability On-line Security and Safety

Operational Workshop – It’s proposed to contemplate under areas for the orientation workshop. Actual focus areas will likely be decided after the recruitment of the advisor in coordination with DPCCS and UNICEF.

Digital Technique for the social media platforms of the youngsters’s membership community Communication and Efficiency Aims Branding Information for Social Media platforms (brand, identify, tag line and many others.) Goal Viewers, Viewers Persona, and Social Media model voice Social media content material technique (content material pillars, key advocacy moments, and a few proposed content material sorts beneath every pillar, potential influencers) Operational procedures (by way of content material creation, acquiring consent, acquiring approval for publishing and many others.) Dos and Don’ts for the social media platforms of the youngsters’s golf equipment.

Guide is predicted to supply under paperwork which are co-developed with the operational workforce, DPCCS and UNICEF after the workshops. Paperwork must be contextualized and related for the social media platforms of the youngsters’s membership networks.

After the Orientation Workshop – Mapping of Digital Ecosystem and Touchpoints, Social Media Ethics, On-line security and safety steering

After the Operational Workshop – Digital Technique, Communication and Efficiency Aims, Branding Information, Goal Viewers, Viewers Personas, Social media model voice, Social Media content material technique (content material pillars; Advocacy moments; and proposed content material sorts and potential influencers), Operation procedures, Consent Kinds, Dos and Don’ts

Coaching workshops needs to be performed in Sinhala and Tamil. If the advisor just isn’t fluent in both Sinhala or Tamil languages, advisor is predicted to rearrange a translator for the workshops, because the workshops needs to be performed in Sinhala and Tamil languages. It’s endorsed to pick out a translator with appreciable understanding on digital media. Primarily based on the necessity, UNICEF and DPCCS will organize an indication language interpreter.

UNICEF and DPCCS will organize the required logistics for the workshops. Workshop will likely be performed in Colombo or at a central location contemplating the places of the operation workforce members. Guide is predicted to handle his/her transportation (and the transportation of a translator if wanted) to attend the workshop. Coaching workshops will likely be scheduled through the weekend/public holidays/faculty holidays. 

3.  Offering on-going help for the operation workforce to handle the social media platforms.

After the completion of the workshops, it’s proposed to conduct three two-hour digital discussions with the operational workforce to supply the required on-going help month-to-month. Themes of those digital discussions will likely be determined later based mostly on the necessity.

Digital discussions needs to be performed in Sinhala and Tamil. If the advisor just isn’t fluent in both Sinhala or Tamil languages, advisor is predicted to rearrange a translator for the digital discussions, because the discussions needs to be performed in Sinhala and Tamil.  It’s endorsed to pick out a translator with appreciable understanding on digital media.  Primarily based on the necessity, UNICEF and DPCCS will organize an indication language interpreter.

•    Above areas are listed based mostly on the present requirement of the duty. Guide is predicted to undertake further areas, that may be arisen based mostly on the altering programmatic necessities.

•     Coaching supplies of the workshops needs to be submitted not less than one week previous to the workshop. Coaching supplies of the workshops, and paperwork submitted after the workshops needs to be initially developed in English.  Revisions are to be performed by the advisor based mostly on the suggestions obtained from the Nationwide Youngsters’s Council, DPCCS and UNICEF. UNICEF will recruit translators to translate the coaching supplies and paperwork to Sinhala and Tamil. Guide is predicted to coordinate with the translators and finalize the coaching supplies and paperwork.

•      Guide ought to present frequent updates of actions taken place to UNICEF and DPCCS. Contact base conferences could be organized as required to debate any points/issues to make sure progress is in step with the anticipated necessities and timeline.

•      Guide ought to adhere to the agreed work schedule and ship based on the accepted high quality requirements.

Guide to help in scaling up the social media platforms of the Youngsters’s Membership community (distant)

 

Length of the consultancy: 15 days (inside 4 months)

Tentative begin date: 15 March 2024

Responsibility station – Colombo

 

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have… 

Bachelors – Communication, Digital Advertising, Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations or different related subject

Information/Experience/Expertise required:

•        At the very least 5 years {of professional} expertise in designing and implementing viewers focussed digital and social media methods.

•        Sturdy expertise in managing digital and social media platforms and campaigns, ideally in a humanitarian or not-for-profit surroundings.

•        Sturdy familiarity with the digital panorama in Sri Lanka

•        Sturdy expertise in coaching and facilitation in relation to digital and social media

•        Sturdy expertise in working with kids in relation to digital and social media.

•        Advocacy and social engagement abilities needed for coping with technical specialists and companions.

•        Wonderful written and oral communication abilities in English and Sinhala/Tamil are required.

•        Sturdy conceptual, synthesis and strategic pondering abilities.

•        Sturdy organisational abilities, with the power to ship outcomes on time.

•        Earlier expertise in working with the DPCCS, UNICEF and UN will likely be an added benefit

 

How one can apply:

Certified candidates are requested to submit a resume and different related paperwork

Please full your profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system. https://www.unicef.org/about/make use of/index_consultancy_assignments.html

Please point out your means, availability and payment/charge (in LKR) to undertake the phrases of reference above. (Point out an all-inclusive payment (together with lump sum journey, IT equipment, Web and subsistence prices, as relevant) to undertake the duties within the Phrases of reference. Workplace 365 license will likely be offered by UNICEF, as relevant) 

Purposes submitted with out a payment/charge won’t be thought-about  

 

For each Youngster, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

 To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want cheap lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine. 

 

Remarks:  

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “employees members” beneath the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (resembling go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Common Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts. 

Should you suppose this place is perhaps for you, please take the time to evaluation our Nation Workplace Mutual Agreements earlier than you apply.

Should you imagine you’ll be able to workforce member that may uphold these on a regular basis, then we sit up for receiving and reviewing your utility.

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.